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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 17 March 1882, Page 2

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HAWKE'S BAY RACES. [united press association!. Napikii, this day, Handicap. Louie i Luna 2 Mischief ;j This was a complete boil over,

Cobinthiah Cup, 2 miles. Lone Hand 1 Borneo 2 No others started. Borneo pulled up lame. SECOND DAY. pkoducr 1 Mile. Kincraig 1 Laird ~ 2 Kunu 3 Bight started, smaller attendance than yesterday, HURDLES, TeWhetu '.. i Clarence ,„ 2 Lone Hand 3 ' CHILD BURNT TO DEATH AT CROMWELL. Dusrwn, March 16 A house belonging to a miner named Ellis, near Cromwell, on Northern Gold-, folds, was burned down to-day, and it child burnt to dentil in the flames.

I!Y CABLE. «, JIBLBOUItNE, March 16. i Arrived, this inorning -Union Company's steamship Rotnmahaim from the Bluff. Lonuo.v, March t5 Further intelligence to hand.from Crsto Rica regarding the earthquake which lias been experienced here shows that the accounts first received were greatly overdrawn. The loss of life and property has been much less than was first reported. Mr Killen, one of the lanjl leaguers who liasJieeum custody for some time past, ha/been released, Capetown. March 15. Telegrams to hand from Woomfonteim report that the question of the bestowal of tho Cross of St. Michael and St. George upon president Brand has again been under consideration in the Volksraad and that Chamber has now passed a resolution authorising the. President's acceptance of the honor of knighthood.

PRODUCE TELEGRAMS '(New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.) London, March 15th Wool.—Competition is increasing, and tho market is firmer. Up to date 109,000 bales have been sold; 55,000 bales have been taken for export. Superior clothing and combing washed have advanced Id to l*d per lb.; long staple Merino, and good quality crossbreds have advanced ito Id per lb; scoured has advanced Id per Id since close of last sales; the lambs' market is firmer, Tallow—The market is flat, best mutton being worth £43, and best beef B0 per ton. Bank of England rate, 4 per cent.